Onishchenko is Ejected from the Olympics

Title: Onishchenko is Ejected from the Olympics
Subject: Olympic Games (21st : 1976 : Montreal, Canada); Candids
Description: Modern pentathlete Boris Grigoryevich Onishchenko (Soviet Union) leaves the fencing hall after being ejected from the 1976 Olympics for tampering with his epee.

Caption on obverse:
"7-19-76 MONTREAL: A dejected Boris Onischenko, from Russia, leaves the Olympic Modern Pentathlon event 7-19 after officials found a bugging device in his epee at the fencing event. The former Olympic gold medalist and three-time world champion's device had been rigged so it would indicate a touch on an opponent when it did not occur."
Publisher: Fencing Arms & Artifacts
Date: July 19, 1976
Temporal Coverage: 1970s
Contributor: United Press International (Publisher)
Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0
Is Part Of: George Masin Collection
Format: 20.5 x 25.3 cm
Language: English
Type: Photograph
Identifier: 2020.11.144
Spatial Coverage: Canada; Montreal
Provenance: Loaned for digitization by George Masin; Digitized by Benjamin Bowles; Cataloged by Benjamin Bowles